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	Sylvia Townsend Warner Information
		Sylvia Townsend Warner (December 6, 1893 - May 1, 1978) was an English novelist and poet.
		Born in 1893, Sylvia was the only child of Harrow School housemaster George Townsend Warner (remembered as a brilliant teacher) and his wife, Nora.
		Sylvia was an accomplished musician, and it is said that the outbreak of war in 1914 alone prevented her from going abroad to study composition under Arnold Schoenberg.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Sylvia_Townsend_Warner (608 words)

	Warner, Sylvia Townsend Criticism and Essays
		Warner's stories present variations on a number of overlapping themes revolving around the attempt to understand human nature in all its complexity.
		Warner was born to a schoolmaster and his wife in Harrow borough, Middlesex county, and educated at home.
		Demonstrating Warner's knack for the absurd and whimsical, "But at the Stroke of Midnight" from The Innocent and the Guilty tells of a man who is so insensitive and oblivious that he realizes that his wife is gone only because dinner has not been set out.
	www.enotes.com /short-story-criticism/warner-sylvia-townsend/introduction (956 words)

	Sylvia Townsend Warner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Sylvia Townsend Warner is always on the side of the individual and the underdog.
		Sylvia Townsend Warner also published several volumes of poetry, and in her correspondence she describes how inspiration struck: "Usually just when I'm about to pack, or catch a train, or have someone to stay.
		In 1967, Sylvia Townsend Warner was made a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature; and in 1972, along with Rebecca West, she was granted honorary membership of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
	www.kruse.demon.co.uk /warner.htm (3450 words)

	Sylvia Townsend Warner - Encyclopedia.com
		Warner, Sylvia Townsend 1893-1978, English novelist and poet.
		In The Corner That Held Them (1948), generally regarded as her masterpiece, she told the story of a 13th-century convent with a scholar's knowledge of the period, in a style that combined a poetic sensibility with wit and irony.
		She wrote several volumes of short stories, including Swans on an Autumn River (1966), The Innocent and the Guilty (1971), and Kingdoms of Elfin (1977); and a highly regarded biography of T. White (1967).
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Warner-ST.html (496 words)

	Sylvia Warner
		Throughout her professional life, Sylvia Townsend Warner was a prolific writer, ranging among biography, novels, short stories, and poetry.
		When Ackland died after nearly 40 years of "marriage," Warner gathered together their voluminous correspondence for publication, connecting the letters with her own narrative and directing her editor to wait until anyone who might be offended by the contents was dead before publishing them.
		Sylvia Townsend Warner began her literary career as a poet, and her first novel is as nimble and precise as poetry and reads as if it might have been composed to a meter.
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	Sylvia Townsend Warner, (1893-1978)
		Sylvia Nora Townsend Warner was born on December 6, 1893, in Devon, England, the only child of George Townsend Warner, a schoolmaster, and Nora Huddleston Warren.
		The years immediately following the war were difficult ones for Warner, marked by her mother's increasing senility and eventual death in 1950, and by Valentine's ongoing affair with an American woman.
		Warner, then in her mid-70s, continued to mourn her for the remainder of her life, though she found some solace in her garden and her much-loved cats.
	www.thedorsetpage.com /people/Sylvia_Townsend_Warner.htm (399 words)

	Sylvia Townsend Warner - NYRB (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893–1978) was a poet, short-story writer, and novelist, as well as an authority on early English music and a member of the Communist Party.
		Fortune’s Maggot, Sylvia Townsend Warner’s second novel, is lyrical, droll, and deeply affecting, and her missionary captivated his creator as much as he did her readers.
		In Lolly Willowes, Sylvia Townsend Warner tells of an aging spinster's struggle to break way from her controlling family—a classic story that she treats with cool feminist intelligence, while adding a dimension of the supernatural and strange.
	www.nybooks.com /nyrb/authors/7430 (153 words)

	Sylvia Townsend Warner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Sylvia Townsend Warner is always on the side of the individual and the underdog.
		Sylvia Townsend Warner also published several volumes of poetry, and in her correspondence she describes how inspiration struck: "Usually just when I'm about to pack, or catch a train, or have someone to stay.
		In 1967, Sylvia Townsend Warner was made a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature; and in 1972, along with Rebecca West, she was granted honorary membership of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
	www.kruse.co.uk /warner.htm (3528 words)

	glbtq >> literature >> Warner, Sylvia Townsend
		The poet, novelist, and short story writer Sylvia Townsend Warner is an important lesbian voice of the earlier twentieth century.
		Warner was born on December 6, 1893, at Harrow School, Middlesex, where her father, George Townsend Warner, was a history master.
		Her first novel, a gently subversive call for female self-determination, is the narrative of a prototypical spinster aunt who eschews the oppressive protection and comforts of the patriarchal extended family and finds fulfillment as a witch.
	www.glbtq.com /literature/warner_st.html (743 words)

	Ghastly Confidences: War and Transgressive Sexuality in Sylvia Townsend Warner's "A Love Match" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Warner here is underscoring the way Hallowby's citizens perceive Justin and Celia's relationship as "unnatural;" a man should not have to confront the problems of a woman who is not his wife.
		Warner implies that there are certain bonds between a brother and sister that are resurrected rather than constructed, and the same can be said for an same-sex relationship, where a world of gender experiences is shared immediately.
		Warner was aware of this fact, which possibly led to a tale of incest resulting from a narrative lesbian panic.
	www.womenwriters.net /editorials/alovematch.htm (6513 words)

	Sylvia Townsend Warner - South Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Born in 1893, Sylvia was the only child of Harrow School housemaster George Townsend Warner (remembered as a brilliant teacher) and his wife, Nora.
		Sylvia was an accomplished musician, and it is said that the outbreak of war in 1914 alone prevented her from going abroad to study composition under Arnold Schoenberg.
		Along with Tomlin and the writer David Garnett, Sylvia Townsend Warner was instrumental in the publication of Theodore's novels and short stories which had languished unseen for years.
	sylvia-townsend-warner.zdnet.co.za /zdnet/Sylvia_Townsend_Warner (832 words)

	The Sylvia Townsend Warner Archive: Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER was born and brought up at Harrow School where her father George was a housemaster and teacher of history.
		In all Sylvia Townsend Warner published seven novels, four volumes of poetry, a volume of essays, and eight volumes of short stories.
		Sylvia Townsend Warner lived for many years with her partner Valentine Ackland in Dorset.
	www.sylviatownsendwarner.com (212 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Sylvia Townsend Warner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Sylvia Townsend Warner was born in Harrow on the Hill in 1893, the only daughter of a history teacher at Harrow public school, and was educated privately at home.
		The heroine of Townsend Warner's first best-selling novel, Lolly Willowes (1926), is a middle-aged spinster who flees from a life of drudgery, dependency and respectability in her brother's household in London to the depths of the rural countryside where she rejoices in the pagan pleasures of her newly found freedom.
		Ackland and Townsend Warner joined the Communist Party and took part in a number of left-wing causes, including improvement of living conditions in the countryside and the working conditions of agricultural labourers.
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	Sylvia Townsend Warner Biography and Summary
		Sylvia Townsend Warner's first novel, Lolly Willowes; or, The Loving Huntsman (1926), was the first selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club, her second novel, Mr.
		Sylvia Townsend Warner's short stories are remarkable both for the diversity of their subject matter and for their number.
		Sylvia Townsend Warner(December 6, 1893- May 1, 1978) was an English novelist and poet.
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	Sylvia Townsend Warner
		Sylvia Townsend Warner, the daughter of George Townsend Warner, a Harrow School history master, wa
		Nancy Cunard introduced Warner to Mary Valentine Ackland and the two women lived together for the rest of their lives.
		During her career Warner published seven novels, ten volumes of short stories, five volumes of poetry and a biography of T. White.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /WtownsendS.htm (507 words)

	The Sylvia Townsend Warner Society Homepage
		he Sylvia Townsend Warner Society was launched in January 2000 in Dorchester by a small group of enthusiasts, assembling for an inaugural meeting at the County Museum.
		In the academic world, a growing number of scholars are publishing works about Sylvia and the importance of her writings and we are delighted that several of them are members of the Society.
		Every year we have a meeting on the Saturday nearest the 1st May, the anniversary of Sylvia's death, when we gather in East Chaldon for a meal at the Sailor's Return and then at St. Nicholas's Churchyard to lay flowers on the memorial tablet to Sylvia and her lifelong companion, Valentine Ackland.
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	Sylvia Townsend Warner -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The English writer Sylvia Townsend Warner began her self-proclaimed “accidental career” as a poet after she was given paper with a “particularly tempting surface.” She wrote her first novel, Lolly Willowes; or, The Loving Huntsman, she claimed, because she “happened to find very agreeable thin lined paper in a job lot.” Despite such self-deprecating...
		U.S. poet and novelist Sylvia Plath's best-known poems are carefully crafted pieces noted for their personal imagery and intense focus.
		She was little known at the time of her death by suicide, but by the mid-1970s she was considered a major contemporary poet.
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	Feminist SFF & Utopia: Reviews: Sylvia Townsend Warner, 1893-1978 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Lolly Willowes, Warner's first story, is the story of a maiden aunt, who decides in her middle years to become a witch.
		Warner has the gift of holding one's attention even while describing utterly commonplace things, and then slipping in little oddities.
		Warner had a lifelong love affair with a woman, Valentine Ackland (1907-1969), and certainly the spirit of independent womanhood suffuses Lolly Willowes - altho it sneaks up on you, in much the same way that Satan might...
	www.feministsf.org /femsf/reviews/warner.s.html (247 words)

	TomFolio.com: by Sylvia Townsend Warner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Warner, Sylvia Townsend (1893-1978) Four in Hand: A Quartet of Novels Introduction by William Maxwell.
		Warner was a magical writer, equally at home in fantasy genres and straight realistic fiction.
		Warner, Sylvia Townsend The Innocent and the Guilty Publisher: The Viking Press New York 1971.
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	Sylvia Townsend Warner Biography / Profile
		Sylvia Townsend Warner, though published often, has received sparse critical attention assessing her importance as a writer of short fiction, novels, poems, biographies, and translations.
		Her father, George Townsend Warner, was a Harrow School housemaster, but Sylvia did not receive a formal education.
		Her mother, Eleanor (Hudleston) Warner, taught her to read, her father taught her history, and a governess tutored her in general subjects.
	www.enotes.com /salem-lit/sylvia-townsend-warner (119 words)

	The Sylvia Townsend Warner Society Biography
		ylvia Townsend Warner was a highly individual writer of novels, short stories and poems.
		In 1935, Sylvia and Valentine became committed members of the Communist Party, attending meetings, fund-raising and contributing to left-wing journals.
		Although there has been a revival of Sylvia Townsend Warner's work in recent years, she remains an under-appreciated figure.
	www.townsendwarner.com /biography.htm (663 words)

	Warner Sylvia Townsend - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Warner Sylvia Townsend - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Warner, Sylvia Townsend (1893-1978), English novelist, short-story writer, and poet, whose work combines fantasy and realism in a distinctive...
		This United Kingdom literary prize was inaugurated in memory of writer John Llewellyn Rhys.
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	Townsend Warner Sylvia - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
		Townsend Warner Sylvia - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
		Townsend Warner, Sylvia (1893-1978), English novelist, short-story writer, and poet.
		Born in Harrow, the daughter of a schoolmaster at Harrow...
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	Amazon.com: Selected Poems: Books: Sylvia Townsend Warner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A prolific author of novels, poetry and biography, Warner's mastery of her art remains exemplary in its powerful complexity, its finely honed, unsentimental perceptiveness and immediacy of description, deep sensitivity and literate, graceful style.
		Many of the stories (written between 1932 and 1977) are set in English villages and focus on middle-aged protagonists often enduring rather than transcending their ostensibly unremarkable lives, confronting losses and botched opportunities and sometimes breaking out of bounds to manifest themselves.
		Warner (1893-1978) was known primarily as a novelist and short story writer.
	www.amazon.com /Selected-Poems-Sylvia-Townsend-Warner/dp/0670808504 (955 words)

	Sylvia Townsend Warner -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Sylvia Townsend Warner (December 6, 1893 - May 1, 1978) was an (An Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the Commonwealth countries) English novelist and poet.
		Her (A extended fictional work in prose; usually in the form of a story) novels include Lolly Willowes, Summer Will Show, The Corner That Held Them, Mr Fortune's Maggot, The Flint Anchor and After The Death of Don Juan.
		She also wrote many (Click link for more info and facts about short stories) short stories, including a sequence set in the supernatural Kingdoms of Elfin, and a biography of novelist (Click link for more info and facts about T.H. White) T.H. White.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/S/Sy/Sylvia_Townsend_Warner.htm (140 words)

	Critical Essays on Sylvia Townsend Warner, English Novelist 1893-1978
		The current collection of essays is a major contribution to the study of Warner and a serious intervention which is intended to put discussion of her work back on the critical map...
		More than would be possible in a single-authored study, these essays demonstrate Townsend Warner’s range, with theoretically-informed discussions not only of her six novels, but also of her poetry, short stories, letters, political tracts and her biography of T.H. White.
		The essays investigate the tradition that Townsend Warner develops or subverts – most notably pastoral and historical fiction – and the richness of her (sometimes obscure and distant) sources.
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	The Salutation by Sylvia Townsend Warner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		“By turns lyrical, analytical and humorous, one of the least read of Warner’s fictions (reprinted here for the first time since 1932), too short to be considered a novel, too long to be a short story.” So writes Claire Harman of “The Salutation”, the title story of this collection of Sylvia Townsend Warner’s short stories.
		[Warner] once said that ‘The Salutation’ was ‘the purest, the least time-serving story I ever wrote’.
		There are echoes of Thomas Hardy and T.F. Powys, but Warner is subtly subversive even as she entertains, and the result is uniquely her own.
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